Frenetic ramblings from the start of the "War on Terror" logging my attempts to film outside Finsbury park mosque over 3 years and sitting through all the subsequent court cases. These days I write about whatever and generally stay out of trouble. Do visit Youtube.com/malungtvnews

I have spent the last few days "up north" making a documentary fortransmission later this year. Of course it meant that I have seen somethingof the floods. I am bound to say that if this had happened in the homecounties, we would never had heard the end of it.

Well tonight, we are in Hull where 35,000 people are displaced,businesses are in appalling trouble and the bills so far in this environmenthave topped £200m.